Personal Narrative-It's Time To Grow Up Books

Furthermore, O’Brien describes this jumbo jet as if it is a real bird. He explains its appearance as “a big sleek silver bird with feathers and talons high and screeching”, to explain the beauty of this plane. He uses imagery to emphasize the significance the freedom birds has on them. O’Brien gives a clear picture to allow readers to understand that even with their emotional baggage, they still have hope that they will one day be happy

Aristotle once said that “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” While other children grew up amazed by the night sky and all its wonders, I grew up captivated by the orchestration of the tiny universe within each and every one of us. Throughout my life, I am constantly mesmerized by the human body’s uncanny resilience against adversities. What fascinates me the most is the body’s ability to constantly overcome obstacles in its battle for survival. The intricate and interdependent symphony of our inner machineries working ceaselessly, enabling us to not only survive, but also thrive fascinates me unlike any other fields of knowledge. Yet, despite the body’s best effort to maintain this inner harmony, there comes a point when it can no longer burden the stress placed upon it. I learned this harsh reality through my father’s battle against his chronic kidney diseases.

Flight, to me, is definitely a book that makes its readers think and just go “Wow.” My main reaction to this book was

Today was the day we were heading back from Hell. It has been an amazing five days with, Kevin, Corrie, Fi, Lee, Robyn and Homer. I was the only one who was allowed to drive the Landie. It was Dad’s orders and I followed them. It was really weird on the last night of our camp there were these low flying planes with no lights on. They were flying so low that we could see the marks on them. The marks weren’t ours. By the time I’d finished writing that down it was time to go. We’d finished packing that Landie and started to head off. I had a gut feeling that something wasn’t right about those planes I just couldn’t put my finger on it. We were home before I knew it. Something was wrong the dogs weren’t barking. When we came

I’m sitting within my petite Barbie dollhouse when suddenly I hear a slam at the door. I immediately stand up from my pink chair and sprint to the front of the house; it’s my older sister who has arrived from elementary school. From the second she would step foot in the house I would yell at her, “It’s time to read!” after a few eye rolls she would finally squat beside me and read a Dr. Seuss book. The way the words would just roll off her tongue so smoothly made English look so effortless, however, when she handed me the book for me to read I didn’t know where to begin, all that came out of my mouth was gibberish. I would make up my own words, not even knowing what they meant but for some reason, it was satisfying. As I continued to

My growth as a writer has been going uphill since the very first mini paper. I came to Heartland Community College thinking, I was an okay writer. They told me when I took the placement test I wrote a college level but I didn’t see it myself. I would look at other classmates work and be kind of upset with myself for not making the same choices they did. Maybe I could have changed a word or maybe talked about a different subject and try to not go off topic so much. Well if it wasn’t a Gladwell paper because he tends to go off topic in his papers. The break up letter took me so long to do, I was so nervous because I didn’t want to sound like a high school kid and get a bad great for not pushing myself to the next level.

14 years of age and still growing. I would say that I’ve experienced being adult, but I’ve got 4 more years for that. What I have experienced is my coming of age,and transforming over my years of life. Typically, being the outgoing person I am today, you would think I’m an interesting person, doing a lot of fun things. I’m actually not though. Besides the fact that I’m a troublemaker and a person that doesn’t really make a lot of friends now that I am older. My only close friends are from when I was younger. I find it harder for me to make more friends now that I am in Highschool. I also find it easier for me to work better, harder, and more efficient on any of my school work. That’s just about me now. I’ll tell you how I succeeded on who I am today, and the obstacles it took me to get here.

This novel looked and seemed like it was a boring book which will talk only about life, but it turns out I was wrong.The outside may have looked boring as well as plane, but the inside was like a beautiful day at the beach watching the sunsets setting. Also as I began reading the novel I was pulled in to the author's own writing inside the structure of life, teaching me it’s ways in a way an average human wouldn't be able to understand. As my adventure came to an end through this brilliant story I learned to look at life in a different way an average human would as well as to try to look deeper to meanings and try to understand

“Life isn't always going to give you a beautiful beginning, but in order for your life to get beautiful it's going to have to get ugly.” This quote, by Markus Anthony, was definitely a big part in my life. Although, my life wasn’t all bad growing up, I did make some mistakes and I didn’t have the standard family. Of course with growing up you make a lot of mistakes along the way, but by far my biggest mistake was the one that really affected my life. It was the mistake that had me go from extremely happy, to depressive and self conscious, and then scared about what would happen next.

Since elementary school I have exhibited a talent for writing. What started out as mere ten page stories about cats hunting mice or Greek Gods turning people into blob fish expanded into publishing a four hundred page long summer camp murder mystery as an eBook with my friend Henry in eighth grade. Over the years I have become more passionate about my writing, and over the years my grammar and writing style have grown tremendously. Looking back at the book I helped write in eighth grade I can’t help but cringe at the mistakes we missed and dull language we used. If I had written the eBook at the level I am now it would have been much longer, extremely detailed, and correct grammar wise. I realize the story could be leagues better, so I’m currently

The connections I have between the book and my life is I really connect to all the daughters in different ways. Especially when they are saying how their mothers are putting pressure on them. I definitely understand what the daughters are saying when they talk about pressure from their mothers, because me being younger in the family and the next one to graduate I have pressure from my mom. My mother always tries to put me in camps, sports, internships and anything for my future, like all the daughters the mothers put them in activities for their future.

I've never been a book worm nor have I've ever been truly into books, however I believe through books one could discover not only our world but a variety of new ones as well. Currently I am fresh into the "real" world and I believe working with Books-A-Million, Inc. would be the perfect first official job because whenever I enter any Books A Million I am greeted with the warm feeling of calmness. I am on a journey of self discovery and I truly believe working in an environment that makes me feel good will make me a better employee.

It was the Fall of 2014 when I helped the Book Club's fundraising table. We only had banana’s and books for sell. Our plan as a team was to sell all of the banana’s for twenty-five cents and books from one to five dollars. However, realising that most people wouldn’t buy a banana, I suggested that we could take donations for the bananas. Everyone said it is up to you, just make a profit. Ten minutes later we received our first customer, he asked how much were the banana’s, and I informed him we were taking donations to raise money for our club, the banana was a gift to the donor. He handed me five dollars without a second guess, grabbed a banana, and said good luck with the club. These sales continuously came, eventually to where we had ran

“Your world revolves around me” is a phrase I have heard most from one of the most influential people in my life throughout high school. These are the words of the sassy, past Highlander yearbook adviser, Elizabeth Perkins. She began the first day of school each year with a speech about how everything we do for the yearbook must be her way, or no way at all. Perkins made it known that good enough is never good enough. She expected perfection. She taught me about the meaning of dedication, accountability and hard work. Coming to the end of my Junior year, she unexpected retired. We were in the process of being positioned into a new staff and I was running for Editor-in-Chief. I remember sitting in a room filled with teachers asking me if I was

“Please fasten your seatbelt the plane is about to land,” the flight attendant addressed over the loudspeaker. I squealed as I put my headphones away and turned my phone off. “Ahhhh, I can’t believe we’re about to land!” I told Armaan. While the plane was landing, we saw the Hollywood Sign, buildings, many hills, and not to mention palm trees! “Wow, look at this view!” I exclaimed as the plane started to dart down at full speed. Finally, we were here. As soon as I got out I felt a nice breeze, and I started to make my way out of the plane and to the baggage area. “I can’t believe we’re here!” Armaan beamed while my dad went to go pick up a car. We found our bags and headed outside when the hot sun blazed right at me. “Mom, Dad can we go to The Grove first I really want to go?”